William T. Freeman
Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, MIT
Sharing features for multi-class object detection
The slides are available in powerpoint format.

Pietro Perona
Caltech
Towards unsupervised learning of object categories

Stefan Schaal
Department of Computer Science, University of Southern California
Real-Time Statistical Learning for Humanoid Robotics
The slides are available in pdf format (requires Acrobat 6.0 for viewing).

Vladimir Vapnik
NEC Research Institute
Empirical Inference